“At the end of the school year, she came up to me and said, “you know, the reason I was so hard on you kids is because I wanted you all to succeed.” “
There is a difference between hard and mean.
Exactly. Hard I responded to. Mean, I did, too, but not in the same way.
I didn’t mind strict, or high expectations.
Mockery and humiliation? I got enough of that from my classmates. I didn’t need it, or expect it, from my teachers.